Sustainability Driven Procurement of Building Projects Incentives and Driving Factors from the Clients’ Perspective
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Design and construction project management (MPDCM), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Farmakis, Orestis
Desivyana, Ni Made Nindya
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The construction industry is reported as one of the biggest global industries which
accounted 30% global greenhouse gas emissions. The challenge of the construction
industry is not merely on the reduction of emissions, but also extended towards other
aspects of sustainability, consisting of the environmental, social, and economic pillars
of sustainability. Sweden took action to handle the environmental issues by targeting
on being climate neutral by 2045. Hence, the Swedish National Board of Housing,
Building, and Planning, commonly known as Boverket, took more detailed action by
stipulating climate declaration for all new buildings. The property developers play a
vital role to boost sustainability in Sweden, since they have an increased influence in
the hierarchy of the construction industry.
In this case, the drivers of sustainable development in the construction industry are
partially reliant on the clients’ requirements requested in every project, as well as their
ethics and initiatives. Therefore, this study investigates the state-of-the-art sustainable
practices among property developers in Sweden to identify the main challenges in
applying sustainable criteria during the procurement phase. This study was carried out
by qualitative research which consists of a literature review and an empirical study of
semi-structured interviews.
This study resulted in the identification of several common sustainable criteria,
covering the three pillars of sustainability and also emphasising the fact that currently
the property developers have an increased interest in environmental and economic
sustainability, rather than social sustainability. The results of the study also raised the
notion of long-term perspective, how it affects the business strategy on sustainability
and the different perceptions that exist.
The study concludes that the market demand drives the implementation of the agenda
on sustainability, among property developers in Sweden, while providing substantial
information that could prove useful in the future development of the national agenda
and its regulations
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Sustainability, sustainable criteria, sustainable requirements, property developers, procurement, tendering, certification, circular economy, and long-term perspective